That askthebrain one is cool. The main thing about it is that you can see what referring keywords there are for each site. It's like having access to every sizeable site's internal search engine reports.

DontDelete seems to be the fastest so i enjoy using it the most. All of them seem pretty useful in their own way though. Id love to see them in your research tool for future reference. Thanks!

is aolsearchdatabase.com using a sample or what? .. I don't get as many hits for keywords as I should get (I get even more out of my own sample of 14milion searches)

The question is, when will AOL start cracking down on websites that publish that information? In this lawyer-based economy, I would say it's just a matter of time.

http://dontdelete.com now has the function to see all keywords leading to a specific url. Also has top 500 keywords.

Don't delete is the best one of these. I'm a bit worried abiut how long it'll take for AOL to track these sites down too. So I'm running the reports I think are useful and archiving them. This is gold dust.

google adsense ads on dontdelete and aolsearchdatabase violates the use of the AOL data. data from dontdelete appears incomplete because of it's incorrect use of the wildcard character in the SQL.

I think the tools are very fun to play with. However I have noticed that the number of times keyword phrases were searched for in comparison to each other is very different when compared to the overture search tool and wordtracker.

I think the most interesting aspect is the ability to actually find out what search terms lead to a specific website. I have never seen this ability before.

Actually the wild card on dontdelete.com is just at the end for speed. You can drop in a % anywhere in your query string (note that searching will take a lot longer). So if you're looking for ALL "food" keywords/phrases, type "%food" into the search box. They add the trailing % already.. returns EVERYTHING... pretty sweet.

josh,

yes but it will kill that server. it hung on me and then timed out. i'm running into a similar problem on my less than powerful PC...

-nick

these are very nice tools and a good addition to overture and wordtracker

Yes, aolsearchdatabase.com seems to be using a sample. I tried a URL and got 6 results a day or two ago and now 0 results. Then I tested again using my downloaded copy on my own computer and got 16 results.

that's why the search results come back so quickly on aolsearchdatabase.com!

i use dontdelete.com for general searching as it is faster than running the full dataset on my own PC.

another very fast AOL keyword tool enhanced by advanced stats decenttools.com